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Philosophy

Suffering Fools

If someone is incorrect, you should still read, listen or try to comprehend their belief. Not to refute them, but to understand the architecture of their error. Falsehood is not random. It has shape, lineage, motive, inheritance. Every mistaken claim is a footprint left by a system trying to stabilise itself under pressure. To read […]

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cybernetics

Palantir: who sees, is seen

Palantir begins as a word before it becomes a company: Tolkien’s seeing-stones, artefacts of vision and distance, instruments of remote awareness that promise clarity while quietly warping intention. They collapse space, compress time, and tempt their users into mistaking access for understanding. In Middle-earth, the danger is not simply that the stones reveal too much, […]

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Philosophy

Philosophical Alienation

Consciousness entails perspectival isolation. Subjective experience is necessarily local, bounded by the fact that one mind does not have direct access to another. Philosophy of mind, phenomenology, and cognitive science converge on this constraint, whether framed as first-person authority, privacy of qualia, or irreducible point of view. Language does not remove this barrier. It operationalises […]